What’s this cell phone stuff anyhow? Beate Nilsen tells us “I am very sensitive to the microwave frequencies of the cell phone company transmitters.” Who needs the NSA when we have Beate listening in.
The cell phone repeaters on the power poles are necessary if we are to use our cell phone in terrain that blocks line of sight to the cell towers. In flat areas, such as Santa Barbara, repeaters are not needed because the cell towers signals are unobstructed. A lot of cell phone repeaters could be eliminated if the towers were located off shore where they would have an unobstructed view of the coastline.
Beate asks, “what is this accumulation of Extreme Low Frequency waves doing to our health?” The fact is that cell phone signals are not extremely low frequency; they are just the opposite. In North America, they operate in the Ultra High Frequency or UHF band on frequencies 850 & 1900 MHz. We have lived all our lives on an earth’s surface saturated with electromagnetic radiation from TV and radio stations, radar, satellite downlinks and cell phones and we have not experienced an outbreak of electromagnetic radiation poisoning, not to be confused with nuclear radiation poisoning, which may be the case here.
The power radiated from radio transceivers, such as repeaters decreases inversely as the square of the distance to the receiver, in this case our cell phone. So, if one is worried about radiation power received from repeaters up on power poles it’s tiny compared to that received from a cell phone transmitting next to our brain. The radiation goes right through our brains and out other side without harm. Don’t worry, you won’t be cooked as Beate fears. If it cooked us, we’d be well done by now. The counties that don’t allow people under 12 to use cell phones probably have child labor laws that prevent them from holding jobs that will pay their phone bill.
Jack Singleton